27 August 1920

To the Small Council

In view of the extremely serious and dangerous illness of Comrade Vorovsky (typhoid fever, pneumonia, and so forth), I request urgent permission to issue a substantial allowance for treatment and enhanced nutrition.

Chair of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

First published in 1945

in Lenin Miscellany XXXV

Printed from the manuscript